<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><br>
1) Have my CRT and the TV working at the same time<br>
and<br>
2) Have two different resolutions: CRT at 1280x1024 and TV at 1024x768 (I know I put 1024x768 and 800x600 in the first post, I only choose those to test things out.)<br>
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I know I might have to set up 2 screens in xorg.conf, but it looks like twinview can achieve this, from what I could read. But actually never saw a confirmed case.</div></blockquote><div><br><br>OK. I actually spent quite some tiem trying to get this same thing working a year or so ago without any luck. I had a single frontend that was connected to an 19" CRT monitor in my office and a TV in my living room. I wanted to be able to watch TV in either location at anytime, but I wanted them to simply mirror each other because I onmly had the one frontend at the time and the rooms were contiguous.
<br><br>Where it got tricky was when I ran into your problem - I wanted to be able to watch my HD content at native resolution on my monitor while having it simultaneously downscaled and mirrored on the TV. I was never able to accomplish my goal of having the HD picture mirrored on the TV - the closest I came was setting my VGA monitor to 1280x1024, while the NTSC monitor was a 1280x1024 virtual desktop on a 1024x768 device with picture centered so with HD content you would get the full vertical picture with the sides cropped.
<br><br>If I remember correctly, at least one of the reasons I ditched that setup was lack of CPU when playing back 1080i content - this was a 3.0ghz hyperthreaded P4 and an nvidia 5200 graphics card.<br><br>Anyhow, best of luck to you, and please report back if you are successful!
<br><br><br></div><br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 377 2020 x248<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>